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Cooplens

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

The skill appears to be a legitimate admissions-analysis helper, but it needs review because its link-checking helper can open arbitrary URLs from a report using the user's network context.

Review this before installing in environments with access to internal web services or cloud metadata endpoints. If used, run URL/link validation only on trusted reports or inside a network-restricted sandbox, and treat the tool's admissions conclusions as prompts for manual official-source verification rather than as final decision advice.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Insecure Skill Coding PracticesFinds exploitable flaws such as hardcoded secrets or command injection
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
Findings (1)

T09 · Insecure Skill Coding Practices

Warning
Location
scripts/cooplens_core.py:837
Finding

Unrestricted Report-Supplied URL Fetching Enables Server-Side Request Forgery

Content
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tuple[bool, str, str]: try: req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "CoopLens critical-source evidence check"}) with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as resp: status = int(getattr(resp, "status", None) or resp.getcode()) ctype = (resp.headers.get("content-type") or "").lower() data = resp.read(max_bytes) if status < 200 or status >= 400: return False, "", f"status {status}" if any(t in ctype for t in ["zip", "rar", "7z", "octet-stream"]): return False, "", f"not inspectable text/html source: {ctype}" text = data.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore") text = re.sub(r"|", " ", text, flags=re.I) text = re.sub(r"<[^>]+>", " ", text) text = html.unescape(re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)) if not text.strip(): return False, "", f"empty or non-text source: {ctype}" return True, text, "" except Exception as exc: return False, "", str(exc)[:200] ``` ```python def cmd_link_check(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int: text = read_text(Path(args.report)) urls = list(dict.fromkeys(URL_PATTERN.findall(text)))[: args.max_urls] results = [] errors = [] for url in urls: try: req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "CoopLens local link check"}) with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=args.timeout) as resp: status = getattr(resp, "status", None) or resp.getcode() ctype = resp.headers.get("content-type", "") resul ...[truncated 4424 chars]
Remediation
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Vulnerability Patterns
  • MCP Tool PoisoningHidden Instructions, Unicode Deception, Parameter Description Injection
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (77)

Tp4

High
Category
MCP Tool Poisoning
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The skill promises substantive real-time verification, rank estimation, CSCSE analysis, public-discussion synthesis, and living-cost research, but the described implementation mainly validates report structure and wording. This mismatch can cause users to place trust in outputs that appear rigorously verified when the underlying capability is largely policy checking, creating a security-relevant integrity issue through false assurance and unsafe decision support.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 32)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 49)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 75)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 167)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 168)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 175)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 189)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 190)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 191)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 192)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 193)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 194)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 195)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 196)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 197)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 198)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 199)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 200)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 201)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 202)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 204)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 205)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 206)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Ae1

High
Category
analysis-evasion
Confidence
100% confidence
Finding

Referenced artifact was not completely inspected

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 207)May include surrounding context.

md
6. Use `scripts/cooplens_core.py` for local candidate lookup, ranking-name lookup, runtime date fallback, Markdown table-of-contents checks, mobile static HTML

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.